Officials: Terror alert intel was old news

New York Times

08/03/04

Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way." [Registration
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp